George Strait, Keith Urban, Emilio Estevez and Glynn Turman are standouts among the honorees.
We’re tipping our Stetsons and raising our glasses to four C&I reader favorites — George Strait, Keith Urban, Emilio Estevez and Glynn Turman — who loom large on the list of notables selected to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by the Walk of Fame Selection Panel of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. These and other honorees were chosen from among hundreds of nominations to the committee, and announced last week by Steven Nissen, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President, and three previous Walk of Famers: Actors Niecy Nash and Joe Mantegna, and music producer Jimmy Jam.
“Each honoree truly embodies the essence of excellence in their respective fields,” said Walk of Fame selection committee chairman Peter Roth. “The committee and I cannot wait to see our honorees becoming part of this world-famous walkway.”
Dates have not yet been announced for individual ceremonies. Recipients have two years to schedule them before they expire.
George Strait
To quote Hunter Hauk’s 2022 cover story profile of the living legend: “The old ‘needs no introduction’ trope comes to mind when thinking of George Strait, the consistently brilliant troubadour who has been comfortable at the top of country music’s heap for the better part of four decades.” Indeed, Strait actually has graced our cover five times since the magazine’s birth more than 30 years ago — because, really, can you ever get enough of this extraordinary entertainer?
Like most of his fans, the C&I crew feared we’d never get another chance to enjoy a Strait-shooting live performance when the superstar announced his 2013-14 “The Cowboy Rides Away” tour might be the end of his days as a road warrior. But no: Just last month, Strait broke the latest in a long line of career-highlight records by giving the performance of a lifetime at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field for 110,905 attendees, making it the largest single concert in U.S. history. Retirement? What’s that?
Keith Urban
But wait, there’s more. Urban served as a judge for the 2012-14 run of American Idol, headlined his 2009 “Escape Together” tour with Taylor Swift as an opening act, and was officially inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on April 21, 2012 — the same evening that his wife, Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, was taking part in an “Evolution of Women Behind the Camera” panel at the Nashville Film Festival. Not surprisingly, Kidman politely cut short her role in the discussion to attend what the panel moderator jokingly described as Urban’s “canonization.” In the true country music tradition, she stood by her man.
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez has long carried on the family tradition begun by his widely respected father, C&I Movie Award winner Martin Sheen, starting with his salad days as a Brat Pack mainstay (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire), continuing with starring roles in the 1988 cult fave-rave Repo Man and the 1992 sci-fi adventure Freejack (with, no kidding, Mick Jagger as co-star), and currently throughout his run as writer-director-star of such films as 1990’s Men at Work (co-starring brother Charlie Sheen), 2006’s Bobby and 2010’s The Way (both co-starring his father). He has appeared in popular franchises — the Stakeout and Mighty Ducks movies — and continues to direct for episodic television.
But we must admit: What has impressed us the most is Estevez’s robust performance as a mercurial Billy the Kid in Young Guns (1988) and Young Guns II (1990), two revisionist Westerns scripted by John Fusco (Hidalgo, Thunderheart). The sequel indicated Billy wasn’t really killed by frenemy Pat Garrett, but instead lived to tell many tall tales. Which explains why, even after all these years, some of us still are waiting — and yes, hoping — for a Young Guns III.
Glynn Turman 
Glynn Turman boasts a remarkably diverse resume, with acting credits ranging from his debut as Sidney Poiter’s teenage son in the original 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun to a key supporting role in last year’s seriocomic Western Outlaw Johnny Black. In between, he’s done everything from ‘70s blaxploitation melodramas (J.D.’s Revenge, Thomasine ) to high-profile cable series (In Treatment, for which he received an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), prime-time TV series (Peyton Place, A Perfect World) to prestigious streaming productions (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Rustin).
Better still, he’s also made his mark as a real-life cowboy. As we noted back when it was announced he would have a supporting role in Kevin Costner’s Horizon, Turman developed a love for horses as a young child and grew up training them. The New York-born actor has spent much of his life as an accomplished horseman, cowboy, and team-roping champion, and served as the Grand Marshal for the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo over 30 times. In November 2011, he was inducted into the Western Heritage Multi-Cultural Museum's Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. Along with his wife Jo-Ann, Turman owns and operates IX Winds Ranch, a 20-acre spread in Lake Hughes, California.
